BRANCH AGM Help us make a difference in 2010Last month’s meeting saw the largest turnout of members we have seen for a long time. Last month’s meeting saw the largest turnout of members we have seen for a long time. The branch can achieve so much more when more members participate, and we hope you will all make an effort to attend the October meeting (6.30pm, Thursday October 8th, Oxford Town Hall), for the annual general meeting.
Last year laid the foundations for a mobilisation around what is happening to quality in academic and educational publishing, as jobs are contracted out, staff are cramming in too much to their working day and experience is not being passed on.
We also built on our earlier work standing up for journalism, with a very successful meeting around Nick Davies, author of Flat Earth News, and a strong showing at the NUJ lobby of Parliament. Our focus continue to be on strengthening chapels in the workplace and defending staff against credit crunch cuts. Trying to undo the damage done by Unite’s single union agreement at Pearson Schools, where they have no membership base, took a lot of our time.
In the coming year, we want to build on what we have achieved so far.
- We remain committed to getting recognition for our large chapel at Pearson Schools.
- We will be welcoming the members of the Scholastic chapel who are relocated from Leamington Spa to Witney in January, and helping them rebuild a strong recognised chapel by recruiting the influx of new editorial staff.
- We will be helping to gather evidence about how, why and where quality is being compromised in academic and educational publishing, to support research being carried out at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.
- We will bring together journalists from all our local news providers to assert our collective commitment to providing a quality service to the community and look at what we would like to happen in the changing landscape of local news provision.
To do all this, we need people to get involved.
Please come to the annual general meeting to show your support, and think about whether you could contribute to the work of the branch by joining the committee.
The following positions will be up for election:
Chair, vice chair (x2), treasurer, secretary, membership secretary, welfare officer, auditors (x2), trades council delegates (x2) AW 2009-10-02
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